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Protomartyr album release and single rollout
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Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr has announced released their seventh studio album, ‘Hotel Usona’, scheduled for release on September 25 via Domino Recording Co. The album was recorded Produced by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios in New York with producer Dave Fridmann. Prior to Studios, the full release, record serves as a concept album that utilizes a cinematic and atmospheric sound to explore a decaying American landscape, metaphorically represented by a crumbling hotel. Following the band released release of the single ‘Feed the Sewer’. Frontman Sewer’—which frontman Joe Casey described the track as a commentary on artificial intelligence and the potential for humanity to sacrifice the world for convenience, utilizing loud music intended to mimic a data center. The single was accompanied by a music video exploring themes convenience—the full album features tracks such as ‘Exalted Eagles’ and ‘The Old Hotel’. These songs highlight the band’s signature blend of loneliness muscular rhythms, stark realism, and surveillance. shifting instrumental dynamics. Lyrically, the upcoming album uses the metaphor continues Casey’s exploration of an aging hotel to examine contemporary American social and political issues, including nationalism, deportation, and political figures. creeping fascism. Musically, the band is incorporating incorporates new influences such as 1950s exotica and Middle Eastern sounds, blending these with brass instruments and their signature established abrasive post-punk style.
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